Sunday, February 11, 2007

Ford intends to demolish the Twin Cities Assembly Plant...

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But workers and the community and the Minnesota Legislature have yet to have a say in all of this. Ford never thought that they would receiv...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

The "New Democratic Majority"

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I have been traveling through Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan the past couple weeks. There is definitely a " new democratic majority...
Friday, February 9, 2007

The Causes of Global Warming

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As you have probably noticed, the media has jumped--- big-time--- on the " global warming " bandwagon this past week. Apparently p...

An Apology

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I have been traveling the past couple weeks and keeping up with my daily blog has been very difficult. I will try to get back on a daily sch...
Friday, February 2, 2007

The fight to protect public waters and aquifers

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Everyplace one travels people are found fighting to protect aquifers and public waters. I have been traveling through Minnesota, Wisconsin, ...
Thursday, February 1, 2007

Markets and Health Care

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There has been a lot of talk about the "market" providing adequate health care. Health Care should not be a commodity to be bought...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

More on Health Care

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Republicans claim the U.S. health care system is the best in the world. Any worker knows this is sheer nonsense. The health care system is a...
Friday, January 26, 2007

The State of the Union; Bush, the Democrats, the alternative

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Bush's State of the Union speech was just about as anticipated... but, the Democratic response has been just as shameful. The Democrats ...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Labor Creates All Wealth

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Throughout the "Labor and Sustainability Conference" this past weekend in St. Paul, it was repeatedly stressed that "labor cr...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Another Inconvenient Truth about Global Warming

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An "inconvenient truth" about global warming is that this problem will not be resolved until working people are fully brought into...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Minnesota Reaction to Bush's "Surge" Speech

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Please note: my next posting will be on Sunday. No matter where I go in Minnesota I find little support for the war in Iraq, and even less f...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Blogging, Democracy: "Framing" issues for "spam filters"

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Veteran journalist Bill Moyers on Friday challenged 3,000 progressive activists and communicators to take back the telling of America's ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

George McGovern's "Blueprint" for ending the war in Iraq

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Note: I am publishing an e-mail I sent to peace activists, elected officials, along with the McGovern "Blueprint" for a way out o...